Myths & mysteries
Spiritualist mediums routinely employed literal magicians to design their fake ghost cabinets
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When your psychic powers fail, just hire a professional stagehand. During the height of the spiritualist movement, mediums realized making ghosts appear out of thin air was hard. So, they secretly hired stage illusionists to build custom 'spirit cabinets' featuring hidden trapdoors, secret compartments for fake ectoplasm, and spring-loaded ghosts. It was Broadway-level production for gullible grieving widows.
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